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Tunnels and Gold Under the Andes

In Isis Unveiled, Blavatsky writes of one of those facinating mysteries
- long extended tunnels supposed to be under the Andes mountains
containing much hidden gold. Is such a thing just airy imagination or
is it fact?

She comments on this subject for several pages. Some of the story she
recounts she claims was known before. Here is some of what she adds:

"Not far from this spot stand three separate peaks which form a curious
triangle; they are included in the chain of the Andes. According to
tradition the only practicable entrance to the corridor leading
northward is in one of these peaks; but without the secret of its
landmarks, a regiment of Titans might rend the rocks in vain in the
attempt to find it. But even were some one to gain an entrance and find
his way as far as the turning slab in the wall of the sepulchre, and
attempt to blast it out,the superincumbent rocks are so disposed as to
bury the tomb, its treasures, and - as the mysterious Peruvian expressed
it to us - "a thousand warriors" in one common ruin. There is no other
access to the Arica chamber but through the door in the mountain near
Pay'quina. Along the entire length of the corridor, from Bolivia to
Lima and Cusco, are smaller hiding places filled with treasures of gold
and precious stone, the accumulations of many generations of Incas,
the aggregate value of which is incalculable.

We have in our possession an accurate plan of the tunnel, the sepulchre,
and the doors, given to us at the time by the old Peruvian. If we had
ever thought of profiting by the secret, it would have required the
cooperation of the Peruvian and Bolivian governments on an extensive
scale. To say nothing of physical obstacles, no one individual or small
party could undertake such an exploration without encountering the army
of smugglers and brigands with which the coast is infested; and which,
in fact, includes nearly the whole population. The mere task of
purifying the mephitic air of the tunnel, which had not been entered for
centuries, would also be a serious one. There, however, the treasure
lies, and there the tradition says it will lie till the last vestige of
Spanish rule disappears from the whole of North and South America."
(Isis Unveiled Volume I pages 595-598 published in 1877.)

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In recent times there has been more confirming evidence of the reality
of these tunnels.

Some of you may be familiar with von Daniken's "Gold of the Gods"
published in 1972. Admittedly von Daniken is quite controversial and
I am not intending to offer any support to his extra-terrestrial claims
by quoting from him here.

Early in his book von Daniken says:

"To me this is the most incredible, fantastic story of the century. It
could easily have come straight from the realms of science fiction if I
had not seen and photographed the incredible truth in person . A gigantic
system of tunnels, thousands of miles in length and built by unknown
constructors at some unknown date, lies hidden deep below the South
American continent. Hundreds of miles of underground passages have
already been explored and measured in Ecuador and Peru. This is only the
beginning, yet t heworldknowsnothingaboutit..

He tells us about the find by Juan Moricz who

"stumbled on the underground passages in June 1965, during his research
work, in which he was ably assisted by Peruvian Indians, who acted as
skilled intermediaries between him and their tricky fellow tribesmen.
Being cautious by nature and skeptical as befitting a scholar, he kept
silent for three years. Not until he had covered many miles of underground
passages and found all kinds of remarkable objects" did he tell anyone.
(Page 4)

Moricz said that passages like those through which we were going extended
for hundreds of miles under the soil of Ecuador and Peru."

You can see more at http://thehollowearthinsider.com/news/wmview.php?ArtID=21.

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More recent and more sound confirmation comes from David Childress.
Childress is an adventurer who has also has written numerous well researched
books that explore the nooks and crannies in the world around us and happen
to often lend general support to Theosophy's general claims for
the ancient history of man.

Online there is a very useful article by Childress at
http://www.ufoarea.com/aas_childress_tunnels.html. I recommend reading
it. Be sure to note that this quite long article continues onto a second
web page.

Here are some snippets:

"What if I told you that I had been inside a fantastic tunnel system
that runs beneath the continent of South America? Would you think me a
liar? Or worse yet, insane? Though I admit it is a story that seems
difficult to believe, I am telling the truth. Read on, dear reader, and
decide if I am mad or lying.

Although it seems incredible, there is a great deal of evidence to show
that a network of ancient tunnels exists throughout much of South America.
Legends abound on this tunnel system, and I can state that I have even
been inside some of the tunnels on this strangest of continents.

Legends of tunnels in South America surfaced almost immediately after the
conquest when the Spaniards discovered that the Incas had hidden much of
their treasure-sacred relics of pure gold either beneath the Inca capital
of Cuzco or in a secret city known as Paititi. Either way, legend had it
that a tunnel system was used."

...

Wilkins believed, as did apparently Madame Blavatsky (a well known psychic
and founder of The Theosophical Society), that a spur of the ancient
tunnel system came out in the Atacama Desert near to Arica and the current
border between Chile and Peru, which is further south still. Madame
Blavatsky related the story, retold by Wilkins, of the ancient treasure
and tunnel system.

...

There certainly appears to be some repetition and borrowing between some
of these stories. Yet most historians and archaeologists believe that they
are based on some fact. That tunnels and lost treasure exist, there seems
to be no doubt. But the real questions are, where are they? And, who made
them?

The treasure of the Incas is believed to still be hidden in the tunnels
that run under Cuzco and the ruins of the megalithic fortress mentioned
above called Sacsayhuaman.

The stories of a subterranean world fascinated me and I decided that South
America was a good place to investigate whatever reality there might be in
the many legends.

...

It didn't take long to find the tunnel entrance.

...

I was amazed at this ancient feat of engineering. We were descending down
into the earth in a wide, gradually slopping tunnel that was dug into a red,
clay-type dirt. It was not the smooth, laser-cut rock walls that Erich
von Daniken had claimed to have seen in Ecuador in his book Gold of the
Gods, but it was just as incredible.

It wouldn't have taken some space-age device to make this tunnel, just
simple tools; yet, it was clearly a colossal undertaking. Why would anyone
build such a tunnel? Was it an ancient mine that went deep into the earth,
searching for an elusive vein of gold or merely red clay for the long gone
ceramic kilns? Was it an elaborate escape tunnel used in the horrific wars
that were said to have been fought in South America-and around the world -
in the distant past? Or was it some bizarre subterranean road that linked
up with other tunnels in the Andes and ultimately could be used to journey
safely to such places as Machu Picchu, Cuzco or the Atacama Desert? Maybe a
combination of all three."

...

Marli, Carl and I continued walking through the tunnel for a kilometer or so.

...

Did it really go to Machu Picchu and the Andes? It seemed incredible, but
we could not discount this story."